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As compiler of this mayhem Tom Gregory notes, track days can be fun, but when they go wrong, they go badly wrong! Watch and wince, and remember this advice from a veteran racing mechanic to his driver: Remember that your right foot is connected to your checkbook. How fast can you afford to go?

Wouldn’t you really rather have a Buick?  So asked GM’s marketing team in a series of TV commercials promoting the Buick lineup in the 1980s and ’90s.  The Reatta was Buick’s 2-seat coupe (and later convertible) from that era, and it packaged smooth styling and advanced technology into a car that provided a lot of […]

RM Sotheby’s has added another Online Only auction to its summer calendar, with Open Roads, North America going up for bidding July 23-30 with about 80 collector cars from which to choose. “The Open Roads, North America auction lineup spans the collector car market, ranging from American Classics to modern sports and supercars, with early […]

As the movement toward the electrification was, so to speak, picking up steam, car designers said they looked forward to exploring the freedom in styling they expected with bulky internal combustion engines being replaced by electric motors and battery packs. To date, most electric cars look pretty much like those powered by petroleum. However, that […]

Think you’d like to do a track day but aren’t sure of your skills? The National Corvette Museum Motorsports Park in Bowling Green, Kentucky, has launched a special “101” on-track introduction to recreational performance driving. The High Performance Driver Introduction costs $300 and is designed to allow drivers “to give the sport a try.” The […]

Everything has to start somewhere, and that includes your first time driving on a race track.  Most of us have seen videos of inexperienced drivers cracking up their cars on a track, be it on the famed Nurburgring in Germany or some local road course.  It’s ugly and nobody wants to be that guy or […]

Here at the Journal, we strive to bring you the world of collector cars with engaging content, humor, and most of all, expertise. If it’s on four (and sometimes two or even three) wheels, we are attracted and probably know something about it, as we have “been there, done that.” Our editorial staff has a […]

When I would introduce Dicken Wear to people, I would say, “You know ‘the most interesting man in the world’ (from the Dos Equis commercials)? He’s got nothing on this man. Meet Dicken.” Dicken may have been one of the most influential characters in motorsports and the automobile business that you never heard of. Some […]

The headline for the Pick of the Day advertisement says simply: 1976 Ford Bronco for sale.  But open the ad and you find something weirdly different, something that makes you squint your eyes and scratch your head and say, “What the what?” Oh yeah, it’s a Bronco all right, at least mechanically, but one that […]

Acres of fine European automobiles reduced to rust, rot and twisted metal, piled high on each other in a massive wrecking yard, is the subject of a new photography book named, appropriately, Junkyard. Perished Porsches, mangled Mercedes-Benzes, BMWs, Bentleys, Aston Martins, Maseratis and other esteemed cars in various states of battered decay fill the pages […]